Today was definitely a day of ocean adventures. We started the day frolicking on the beach. The older girls were determined to get up on the surf board- mainly because Daddy promised a Dairy Queen treat of their choosing if they did. The younger girls and Mommy build sand castles and practiced our skim boarding. We laughed and joked that the life guard had...
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Since yesterday was such a success we decided to start today the same way. Poolside math lessons. We met our home school friends from the previous evening who told us their previous night crab hint was a huge success. They invited to drop by and see some of the larger ones they kept from the night before. Unfortunately, we were reluctant to get it of the water and...
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The key to homeschooling is definitely a warm pool and beach side tables. Today the girls begged to be able to do homeschooling a little longer. To delay our adventure just a couple hours so they could hang out by the pool, swim and do math. We never thought we would hear those words. I have to admit it was a very relaxing morning and I found myself wishing...
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First in Flight- Achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith! What a wonderful quote. The Wright Brothers National Memorial was quite inspirational for the girls. It was amazing to hear that the brothers didn’t even have a completed high school education- they simply had drive, determination and curiosity. From developing a new coefficient of...
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Today we woke determined to tackle the Smithsonian and all it has to offer. From the air and space museum, to the Holocaust Museum, to the numerous memorials. We started at the air and space museum. We saw a replication of the moon lander. We saw dramatic landscapes of the Moon captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and we actually got to actually touch...
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When we decided to head to the Outer Banks, we were well aware of the fact that is was hurricane season. But we rationalized that it was just the start of hurricane season…..We would be fine! When we started our journey on Sunday, we were tracking a tropical depression with keen interest. By Monday all we could see was pounding rain and our mother’s...
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